2008 Ford Edge Power Train

Rear driveshaft support failed while driving. A lot of smoke, noise and very bad vibration. Was traveling at a low speed(25mph). If the driveshaft had come apart, it could have easily caused damage to the body and its passengers. It also could've struck and damaged any vehicles near by. After speaking to the Ford dealer, they dais that it was a fairly common occurrence, which surprised me. Thanks for reading my complaint.

The transmission randomly gets stuck in 1st gear and won’t shift beyond that. The RPMs rev up real high and the only way to fix it is to pull off the road and turn the car off and back on. The transmission also bumps really hard shifting sometimes or revs up real high before shifting with a big thud. The dealership says they can’t diagnose it if it’s not doing it when I bring it in. They said the same thing about my alternator when it kept going out on me driving. They never could get it to mess up when they had it.

The contact owns a 2008 Ford Edge. The contact stated while approaching a stop sign, the vehicle lost motive power and stalled without warning. The contact was able to pull over on the side of the road, but the vehicle would not restart. The vehicle was towed to the dealer for diagnostic testing, but no failure was found. The contact stated that the failure persisted. On another occasion, while driving, the vehicle experienced hard shifting to 2nd gear and a delay in upshifting to the next gear. The manufacturer was contacted and stated there was no recall on the vehicle for the failure and advised the contact to file a complaint with the NHTSA Hotline. The approximate failure mileage was 120,000.

Transmission slipping like all the other complaints, should be a recall for sure after looking through all the same issues in this year of Ford Edge around 78K miles.

I own a 2008 Ford edge awd limited and yesterday while getting on the interstate my vehicle made a loud clunking sound I immediately pulled over I had it towed to the house and once it was evaluated we discovered that there was a crack in the transmission housing there was no prior signs of the problem when we started the vehicle and put it in reverse it wouldn't move killed the vehicle started back and put it in reverse and it moved but I will have to change the housing if not the whole transmission

TRANSMISSION NOT SHIFTING PROPERLY HESITATED IN SHIFTING

ON JUNE 3, 2020 MY 2008 FORD EDGE EXPERIENCED SUDDEN TRANSMISSION FAILURE WHILE DRIVING ON A BUSY 5 LANE HIGHWAY WHICH COULD HAVE RESULTED IN INJURY OR DEATH. THANKFULLY, MY WIFE WAS ABLE TO GET IT OFF THE ROADWAY. IT WAS THEN TOWED TO A REPAIR SHOP. THERE WERE NO WARNING SIGNS LEADING UP TO THIS TRANSMISSION FAILURE. THE CAR WAS WELL MAINTAINED PRIMARILY THROUGH A FORD DEALERSHIP AND CERTIFIED MECHANICS. THE VEHICLE HAS ONLY 96000 ORIGINAL MILES. AFTER A SHORT INTERNET SEARCH, IT BECAME PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THAT THIS WAS A WELL DOCUMENTED SHORTCOMING OF THE 2008 FORD EDGE. I CONTACTED THE LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP WHO VERIFIED THAT THEY WERE AWARE OF THIS ISSUE WITH THE 2008 EDGE, "BUT FORD HAS NOT RECALLED IT YET". I THEN CONTACTED FORD MOTOR COMPANY ON JUNE 5TH WHO ALSO ADMITTED THAT THEY WERE AWARE OF SUDDEN TRANSMISSION FAILURE IN THE 2008 EDGE BUT HAVE NOT RECALLED THEM AS OF THIS TIME. THIS IS A SERIOUS, POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING MANUFACTURE DEFECT THAT IS BEING IGNORED BY THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY. IT IS ALSO COSTLY TO THE CONSUMER. ESTIMATED COST TO REPAIR THIS THROUGH FORD WITH A REBUILT TRANSMISSION IS OVER $5000. PRIOR TO THIS EPISODE, WE WERE PLEASED WITH THIS VEHICLE. HOWEVER, WE NOW QUESTION THE MORAL DECISION MAKING BY FORD MOTOR COMPANY IN CHOOSING TO IGNORE THIS POTENTIAL LIFE THREATENING MANUFACTURE DEFECT. I SUGGEST THAT THERE BE AN IMMEDIATE RECALL AND REIMBURSEMENT TO CUSTOMERS FOR TRANSMISSION FAILURE IN THE 2008 FORD EDGE.

WHEN DRIVING THIS THE TOOL LIGHT ENGINE LIGHT COMES ON LOOSE THE ODOMETER AND IT DOESN'T WANT TO MOVE ONCE YOU STOP. THEN WHEN YOU CAN GET IT TO MOVE THE TRANSMISSION CLUNKS HARD . I ALSO LOST THE MILEAGE ON THE DASH AS WELL. AND THEN WHEN TRYING TO PULL INTO SOMEWHERE THAT HAS A SLIGHT HILL THE CAR WON'T GO FORWARD. THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR A COUPLE WEEKS

I WAS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY AND MY CAR JUST STOPPED. ODO ERROR CAME ON. PRESSED GAS PEDAL AND NOTHING. I COULD HAVE BEEN IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. AT DEALERSHIP NOW.

WHILE NORMALLY DRIVING, THE "WRENCH" LIGHT WILL COME ON AND THE VEHICLE GOES INTO A LOW-POWER "LIMP MODE". SO I PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY, AND PUT THE VEHICLE IN PARK, SHUT IT OFF, AND REMOVE THE KEY. I SIT WITH IT POWERED OFF FOR ABOUT A 10 SECOND COUNT, AND RESTART THE ENGINE. THE WRENCH LIGHT GOES OFF, AND I CAN DRIVE NORMALLY UNTIL IT HAPPENS AGAIN.

WHEN DRIVING THE VEHICLE IT LOSES THE ABILITY TO ACCELERATE AND ONLY ALLOWS ME TO TRY TO PULL OFF THE ROAD TO A SAFE PLACE WITH THE MOMENTUM OF THE VEHICLE BEFORE IT LOST POWER. IF I AM NOT AT A PLACE WHERE I CAN IMMEDIATELY PULL OFF SAFELY I AM STRANDED IN TRAFFIC. WHEN THIS OCCURS I AM ABLE TO TURN OFF MY VEHICLE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND WHEN I RESTART IT, THE VEHICLE RESUMES NORMAL OPERATION UNTIL THIS HAPPENS AGAIN. IT HAS HAPPENED IN VARIOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS AND AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. WHEN THE ACCELERATION IS LOST THE POWERTRAIN FAULT LIGHT COMES ON.

DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND THE WRENCH LIGHT COMES ON, SPEEDOMETER STOPS WORKING AND THE VEHICLE LOSES POWER. I CAN ALSO SMELL A BURNING SMELL. ONCE I HAVE COME TO A STOP, THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTS VERY HARD LIKE SOMEONE HAS HIT THE VEHICLE. THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES, INCLUDING A COUPLE OF TIMES WHEN I PULLED INTO TRAFFIC AND THE VEHICLE LOST POWER, COMING VERY CLOSE TO CAUSING AN ACCIDENT WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC. VERY DANGEROUS AND I AM VERY APPREHENSIVE ABOUT DRIVING THE CAR DUE TO MY FAMILY'S SAFETY.

2008 FORD EDGE WHILE DRIVING ON CITY STREETS ALL OF A SUDDEN THE WRENCH LIGHT CAME ON, AIRBAG LIGHT, THE MILEAGE ODOMETER BLANKED OUT AND THE SPEEDOMETER STOPPED WORKING THERE WAS A LOSS OF POWER. THE TRANSMISSION MAKES A HUGE CLUNKING SOUND AND JERKS INTO GEAR SHIFTING INTO DRIVE FROM PARK AND REVERSE

VEHICLE IN MOTION ON CITY ROAD WHEN VEHICLE ALL OF A SUDDEN MAKES LOUD/HARD CLANK NOISE AND IMMEDIATELY LOSES POWER - ALMOST LIKE IT STARTED TOWING A TRAILER! LOSS OF POWER, WRENCH LIGHT, TPS LIGHT, AIRBAG LIGHT ALL COME ON, SPEEDOMETER STOPS WORKING. PULLED OVER, LOUD/HARD CLANK SOUND WITH EVERY GEAR CHANGE P-2. VEHICLE HAD DISPLAYED NO ISSUES PRIOR TO THIS. DROPPED VEHICLE OFF AT MECHANIC, WHEN HE LOOKED AT IT NEXT MORNING, VEHICLE IS RUNNING PERFECT. TODAY IS A FRIDAY, I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO OUT OF TOWN (VIA I75) BUT I AM GOING TO STAY LOCAL AS IT DOES NOT FEEL SAFE TO DRIVE ON THE HIGHWAY. I AM GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT APPEARS TO BE A HUGE SAFETY ISSUE WITH THIS CAR. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEARCH - THERE ARE MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE SAME ISSUE TO BE FOUND ALL OVER THE INTERNET WITH NO FIXES KNOWN. FORD NEEDS TO ISSUE A RECALL AND FIX THIS ASAP BEFORE SOMEONE GETS SERIOUSLY HURT OR IS KILLED FROM THE EXTREME LOSS OF POWER THE VEHICLE IS SUFFERING FROM WHEN THIS HAPPENS.

TRANSMISSION SLIPPING AND DOWNSHIFTING HARD - AROUND 80,000K I STARTED TO NOTICE THAT THE TRANSMISSION WOULD BANG WHEN I PUT IT IN REVERSE. AFTER THAT, OTHER ISSUES STARTED HAPPENING - WHILE PRESSING THE GAS PEDAL, VEHICLE WOULD NOT SWITCH TO A HIGHER GEAR. I'D HAVE TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP (IN TRAFFIC!), PUT IT IN PARK, THEN TRY TO DRIVE AGAIN. PERIODS WHEN THE VEHICLE WOULD GET TO SPEED THEN SLIP. TRANSMISSION WOULD BANG LIKE I WAS BEING REAR-ENDED. CHANGED THE VALVE BODY, TSS, AND OSS SENSORS. THAT WORKED FOR A WHILE BUT NOW IT'S ACTING UP AGAIN. DOWNSHIFTS SO HARD AND BANGS WHILE I'M DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. I'M AFRAID IT'S GOING TO GO COMPLETELY WHILE I'M DRIVING. THERE WAS NO PRIOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLE TO CAUSE THIS MALFUNCTION.

AS EVERYONE ELSE WITH 08 EDGE THE TRANSMISSION LOSES POWER. ENTERING HWY AND PRESS ON GAS, NO PICKUP JUST STALLS OUT. REPORTED TO ENERGY COUNTRY FORD ON 3 DIFFERENT VISITS, IN PORT ARTHUR, TX AND OF COURSE THEY SAID NOTHING WRONG. ALSO, LOUD CLUNK FROM PARK TO REVERSE OR DRIVE. PAINT ALSO CHIPS/PEELS ON THIS CREAM COLORED VEHICLE. HAVE SEEN OTHER VEHICLES THIS COLOR ON THE ROAD AND THE PAINT AROUND DOOR AREAS PEELING. ONLY 65K MILES AND WELL MAINTAINED. WITH SO MANY REPORTS OF THIS ISSUE FORD SURELY WOULD RECALL THE 08 EDGE TRANSMISSION LIKE THEY HAVE ON THE TRUCKS.

WHILE DRIVING THROUGH AN INTERSECTION AT APPROX 40 MPH TRANSMISSION SHUTTER AND LOCKED THE WHEELS UP. LUCKILY THE TRAFFIC AROUND ME WAS ABLE TO DODGE ME WITHOUT INCIDENT. I SHUT IT OFF AND RESTARTED PUT INTO 1ST GEAR AND PULLED OFF TO SIDE OF ROAD. THERE WAS BURNT GEAR OIL SMELL COMING FROM UNDER THE SUV. NOW IT COMES AND GOES TRANS SLIPPING AND PTU OVERHEATING.

BOUGHT CAR USED JULY 2017 FROM A DEALER. HAS PROBLEMS STARTING A FEW WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE OF NOT WANTING TO MOVE. IF IN HEAVY TRAFFIC DOING 5-10 MPH ON EXPRESSWAY, WHEN TRAFFIC FINALLY BREAKS CAR WILL NOT MOVE, RPM'S GO UP BUT TRANSMISSION IS STILL STUCK. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AS I AM SEEING A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FOR THE SAME THING. TOOK MY CAR INTO THE DEALER DUE TO EXTENDED WARRANTY. THEY WERE ABLE TO REPLICATE WHAT I TOLD THEM. THIS IS AN INTERNAL PART FAILURE BUT I AM STILL WAITING TO HEAR IF MY EXTENDED WARRANTY WILL BE PAYING FOR THIS. UNACCEPTABLE THAT SO MANY HAVE THIS SERIOUS ISSUE WHICH COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT IF CAR DOES NOT MOVE ON A BUSY HIGHWAY OR AT A STOP LIGHT. THIS HAS HAPPENED IN HEAVY STOP/GO TRAFFIC, FROM A STOP LIGHT WHEN LIGHT CHANGES TO GREEN. UNLESS YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO PULL OFF AND TURN THE CAR OFF AND BACK ON IT WILL NOT MOVE.

WHILE YOU START TO DRIVE FROM A STOP LIGHT OR STOP SIGN, THE CAR WILL NOT SHIFT OUT OF LOW AND THE ENGINE WILL REV UP AND CAR WILL BE AT A CRAWL WHILE TRYING TO CROSS THE INTERSECTION SAFELY. WHILE BACKING UP, THE TRANSMISSION SEEMS TO SLAM IT INTO REVERSE WHERE YOU HEAR A LOUD BANG AND THE CAR SUDDENLY JERKS AS IF YOU HAVE HIT SOMETHING. WHILE ACCELERATING TO GET ONTO THE FREEWAY, THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTS INTO LOW GEAR, STAYS IN LOW AND CAN'T GET UP THE SPEED TO GET ON THE FREEWAY SAFELY. THE PROBLEM OCCURRED AT FIRST SPORADICALLY, THEN WHEN I WOULD GET HOME, TURN OFF THE CAR AND THEN WAIT FOR A FEW MINUTES, IT WAS AS IF THE COMPUTER HAD RESET AND IT WORKED FIND. AS TIME WENT ON, IT OCCURRED MORE FREQUENTLY AND TURNING OFF THE VEHICLE WAS NOT AN OPTION. I HAVE RECENTLY REPLACED THE TRANSMISSION AND NO MORE PROBLEMS HAVE OCCURRED. MILEAGE ON MY VEHICLE IS APPROXIMATELY 102K MILES, BUT THE PROBLEM STARTED OCCURRING AROUND 58K MILES.

TRANSMISSION FAILURE TRAVELLING AT 55 MPH WITH TRANSMISSION DE-DECELERATING TO FIRST GEAR AND 20 MPH ALMOST RESULTING IN SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY. PREVIOUSLY NO SYMPTOMS OF ISSUES WHILE DRIVING.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 FORD EDGE. WHILE DRIVING 70 MPH COMING OFF A RAMP, THE ENGINE SEIZED AND THE VEHICLE SLOWED DOWN AS THE ENGINE CONTINUED TO REV. THE CONTACT STATED THAT NO FAILURE CODES APPEARED WHEN HE CHECKED ON HIS CODE READER. THE DEALER (LARRY H. MILLER FORD LINCOLN DRAPER, 11442 LONE PEAK PKWY, DRAPER, UT 84020, (801) 590-0561) STATED THAT THE FAILURE MAY BE DUE TO THE TRANSMISSION. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 94,500. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

PTU HAS OVERHEATED CAUSING THE OIL INSIDE TO BECOME BLACK AND GUMMY, ALSO CAUSING ONE OR BOTH SEALS TO FAIL LEADING TO THE UNDERCOATING OF THE VEHICLE TO BE COVERED IN BLACK THICK OIL. THIS WAS NOTICED ONLY AFTER A 200 MILE RUN ON THE INTERSTATE IN THE WINTER OF 2017, 65-80 MPH... WE HAVE SINCE FOUND THAT NUMEROUS OTHERS HAVE HAD THE SAME ISSUE WITH THIS GENERATION OF AWD PTU'S AND IS A ENGINEERING ISSUE WITH THE DESIGN OF THE VEHICLE

2016 DRIVING OUT OF SUBDIVISION,CAME TO STOP BEFORE STARTING UP INCLINE.MOTOR WAS RACING BUT CAR WAS SLOWLY MOVING,DROVE A SHORT DISTANCE,AT VERY SLOW MOVEMENT.PULLED OFF ROAD AND HAD CAR TOWED TO FORD DEALERSHIP TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT. THEY FOUND NOTHING WRONG. 2018 AFTER HWY. DRIVING AND THEN TURNING ROAD...CAME TO STOP SIGN,PUT FOOT ON GAS TO MAKE TURN AND CAR MOTOR WAS RACING BUT CAR WOULD BARELY MOVE.MOVED ABOUT 8 FEET THEN PUT GEAR INTO NEUTRAL FOR A MINUTE AND THEN PUT GEAR INTO DRIVE.IT MADE A LOUD NOISE , BUT DID GO INTO DRIVE. DROVE 1 BLOCK AND IT APPARENTLY SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR AND ROLLED TO A STOP.

AT 90,000 MILES THE TRANSMISSION STARTED SLIPPING TOOK IT TO THE TRANSMISSION SHOP DID A DIAGNOSTIC CHANGE THE TRANSMISSION OIL AND NOTHING CAME ON THE TEST THEY SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT IT SLIPPED AGAIN IN A COUPLE WEEKS I HAD TO PULL OVER PUT IT IN PARK STARTED AGAIN AND IT WENT. AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF WORKING GOOD YESTERDAY SAME SLIPPING HAPPENED AGAIN TOOK IT TO MY MECHANIC DID A DIAGNOSTIC AND AGAIN CAME OUT OK THIS IS CRAZY. PLANNING A TRIP AND HE SAYS I WOULDN'T TAKE THE CAR BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN THE TRANSMISSION SEEMS TO BE SLIPPING BUT THERE'S NO RECALLS ON IT AND READ A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ON THIS WHY IS THERE NO RECALL?

CHECK ENGLINE LIGHT & WRENCH COMES ON AND THE 2008 EDGE SUDDENLY LOST POWER, THEN ENTERED "LIMP MODE". MY HUSBAND TOOK IT IN 3 DIFFERENT TIMES TO THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT, AND EACH TIME WAS TOLD THEY COULDN'T FIND THE PROBLEM. THE 4TH TIME I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ON A 45MPH, 3 LANE ROAD. THE POWER JUST WENT OUT, ACCELARATOR NO LONGER WORKED, BUT THEN RETURNED BUT ONLY ABOUT 5MPH. LUCKY I WASN'T KILLED! I TOOK IT BACK TO SERVICE DEPT. AND TOLD THEM THEY NEEDED TO CHECK THE THROTTLE BODY (ETB). THEY LAUGHED AT ME, BUT THEN CALLED 3 DAYS LATER TO TELL ME THAT IT IS THE ETB AND OVER $750. I CONTACTED FORD AS THEY HAD ISSUED THE SO-CALLED "CUSTOMER SATISFACTION PROGRAM" EXTENDING THE ETB WARRANTY COVERAGE FOR UP TO 10 YEARS OF SERVICE OR 150,000 MILES. FORD SAYS ALL VEHICLES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM, REGARDLESS OF MILEAGE, BUT NOT 2008. THOUGH THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THEY KNOW THE PROBLEM GOES BACK TO 2005 MODELS, THEY FEEL MY CAR IS TOO OLD & HAS TOO MANY MILES AT 104K. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING PROBLEM AND FORD REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING. WHEN SOMEONE DIES BECAUSE OF THIS KNOWN ISSUE, I HOPE THAT FORD EXECUTIVES ARE HELD AS COMPLICITORS IN PREMEDITATED MURDER. AFTER ALL THE PROBLEMS WITH THE BRAKES, NO PARTS AVAILABLE, AND NOW THIS, I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER FORD AND WILL GET THIS PIECE OF JUNK OUT OF MY LIFE ASAP.